American Girls Marry European Nobility to Boost Prestige
A Washington Evening Star column lauds American women who marry into French and European noble families. It highlights Miss Shonts, Miss Mitchell, Miss Forbes, Miss Hooper, Miss Coudert, and others, noting fortunes, alliances, ducal connections, and social influence across Paris and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aris
America
Europe
Washington Evening Star
France
United States
Rochefoucaulds
Utes
Shants
Decazes
Harstoff
Haritoff
Prince Polignac
Winnaretta Singer
Isaac Singer
Campo
Selige
Naples
Sicily
Miss Hooper
Cincinnati
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Weil
Comte Horace de Choiseul
Duc de Choiseul-Praslin
Miss Forbes
New York
Choiseul-Praslin
de Choiseul-Praslins
Miss Coudert
New York-Paris
Miss Winans
Baltimore
Louie Sov
Louis de la Grange
Jean de Kergorlay
Gov. Carroll
Maryland
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Marquise de Breteuil
Miss Garner
St. Louis
Comte Leon von Moltke
Denmark
S Bonaparte
Edith Garner
Gordon Cummings
England
Marquis de Mores
Miss von Hoffman
James Gordon Bennett
Rita Bell
Paul d’Aramon
Miss Fisher
Amusing Connecticut Dentist Tale From a Laughing Editor
Chicago publisher recalls Edmund Clarence Stedman and a Connecticut paper. He recounts Jake the amateur dentist who pulled a huge tooth with rusty pincers in a barn to save a trip to Winsted, leaving the farmer shocked by the result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Chicago
Connecticut
New York
Jake
Winsted
The Anarchist and the Loyal Jew in Czarist Russia
Moses Kamoff a Jewish student in Russia seeks peace after years of police punishment for a secret dye. An anarchist offers revenge with a silent air gun that can kill from a distance. Kamoff destroys the weapon rather than unleash mass murder, dying with a vow to humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Kamoff
Russia
Moses
Siberia
Russias
Wunter
Ife
Kamoff
Warnoff
Kattate
Magnificent chateau and Musee Sociale influence in Paris
A fragmentary reminiscence describes the Musee Sociale in Paris founded by a social leader who welcomed American students to study French social projects. It notes Mabilleau directing lectures at Harvard and contrasts American girls' marriages abroad with lasting French social ties. It mentions an American heiress marrying into French society and cites a humorous London Daily News letter about old age habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel
Duc Decazes
Haritoff
Harstoff
Monte Carlo
l’Empery Car- Tieres
Musee Sociale
Paris
France
United States
Leopold Mabilleau
de Chambrun
Harvard
Marquise de Ganay
Miss Ridgeway
Philadelphia
Baronette
Lincolnshire
London Daily News
Proper Discrimination Dialogue From a Virginia Fishing Trip
A group from New York discusses fish in Virginia with their guide Zeke. The guide replies in dialect that yellow perch is the best, explaining that the white shad is always eaten first. The piece is presented as a dialect joke from Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Old Dominion
Darky
Zeke
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
For SALE Hay in stock A A HOLMES
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowley
Insolvent Estate of John L. Miller Declared in Sullivan County
At the March term of the Circuit Court of Sullivan county Indiana the estate of John L. Miller was declared insolvent. All persons interested are notified that said estate will be settled accordingly. William M. Miller administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Sullivan County
Indiana
John L. Miller
William M. Miller
German American Trust Company
Linton Bituminous Coal Company
Albert Rabb
Sullivan
Towit
Township Eight
Chicago-Linton Coal Company
Coanty
Diamond Coal & Mining Co
German American Trust CO
Indianapolis
Ind
Mahlon Unger
Indianapols
Bill H. Hays
Samuel Lillie
the Clery
Sullivan Circuit Court
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Mitchell
Hussars
Montmirail
Oregon
d’Uzes
Francis de la Roche
Francis II
Paris Grand Opera
Duchesse de Chaulnes
Miss Shonts
Uzes
Miss Curtis
Duc de Dine
Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord
Poli
Piggio-Suasa
Princesse de
Bearn Et
de Chalais
Caroline Fraser
Bordentown
N. J
Caroline
Daren
Zephira
Lovely
Mingrelia
Chambruns
Louis XV
Comte de Chambrun
Chambrun
Marquis de Chambrun
Rives-Nichols
Washington
Miss Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Ken Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld
Por
Humanity
Nex
Gomtesse de
Hambrun
Julius Harry Shoe Co
A. A. Holmes
A. M. Timmis
H. Hays
John T. and
Will J. Elays
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